Newbery Winners
This Newbery-winning novel is set largely on a spaceship traveling from Earth.
The Last Cuentista
Caldecott-winning author and artist, Dan Santat, created an "unimaginary friend" with this name.
Beekle
This author is famous for his two poems, "Paul Revere's Ride" and The Song of Hiawatha.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
This is the earliest part of a story's plot.
exposition
An epic is an example of this type of poem.
Narrative
The Newbery-winner used her Korean heritage as inspiration for When You Trap a Tiger.
Tae Keller
This author is the first female African-American Caldecott winner. She won for her book Big.
Vashti Harrison
This poet often used unusual capitalization and punctuation in his works like "maggie and milly and molly and may".
e.e. cummings
This is the last part of a story's plot.
resolution
This tall tale man was based on a real railroad engineer who sacrificed himself to save passengers on his train.
Casey Jones
In this Newbery-winner, every Sunday after church, CJ and his grandma ride the bus across town. But today, CJ wonders why they don't own a car like his friend Colby.
Last Stop on Market Street
Radiant Child, a Caldecott-winning biography, was the biography of this artist
Jean-Michel Basquait
This author wrote Space Station Seventh Grade, Maniac Magee, and Stargirl.
Jerry Spinelli
This literary device is in the following sentence:
The tennis ball whooshed over the net.
onomatopoeia
In a counting rhyme, these animals jump on a bed before falling off one-by-one and bumping their heads.
In this Newbery-winner, a Korean folklore is brought to life as a girl goes on a quest to unlock the power of stories and save her grandmother (Halmoni). When Lily and her family move in with her sick grandmother, a magical tiger, straight out of her Halmoni's Korean folktales arrives, prompting Lily to unravel a secret family history.
When You Trap a Tiger
This Caldecott-winner is a poem that is a love letter to black life in the United States. It highlights the unspeakable trauma of slavery, the faith and fire of the civil rights movement, and the grit, passion, and perseverance of some of the world's greatest African American heroes.
The Undefeated
This author wrote The BFG (The Big Friendly Giant).
Roald Dahl
This Aesop fable has the moral "The race is not always to the swift".
"The Tortoise and the Hare"
One Crazy Summer, P.S. Be Eleven, and Gone Crazy in Alabama are all part of this series by Rita Williams-Garcia.
Gaither Girls trilogy
This Newbery-winner, is a graphic novel about starting over at a new school where diversity is low and the struggle to fit in is real. As seventh grader Jordan Banks makes the daily trip from his Washington Heights apartment to the upscale Riverdale Academy Day School, he soon finds himself torn between two worlds--and not really fitting into either one.
New Kid
In the Caldecott-winner, we see that gathering watercress by the side of the road in Ohio brings a girl closer to her family's Chinese Heritage. At first, she's embarrassed. But when her mother shares a story of her family's time in China, the girl learns to appreciate the fresh food they foraged.
Watercress
This author is the author of On the Banks of Plum Creek.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
In this Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale, a pea is under a pile of mattresses proving that a young woman really is a princess.
"The Princess and the Pea"
Where does the apostrophe go in the following sentence?
The geeses migration route is right above our town.
Before the final s in geeses:
The geese's migration route is right above our town.